This small and rounded skate (max 56.0 cm TL), with short disc length (29.0-54.1% TL), width (61.2-67.3% TL), head length (15.9-21.3% TL), and internarial distance (5.2-6.7% TL); claspers are long and thin, rounded tip not bulbous, no pseudosiphon, with an average pseudorhipidion and not conspicuously projecting from the tip, V-shaped cleft, has a projection and an average sentina, projection is pointed; teeth in 22-31 rows on upper jaw and 18-31 rows on lower jaw; pectoral radials 69-72; pelvic fins17-22; total vertebrae 132; dorsal surface covered in uniform prickles; thorns present on dorsal surface, males with well-developed alar thorns, no malar thorns, middorsal thorns range in number (0-9), nuchal thorns strong (3-7), tail thorns few (14-22), scapular vary in count (0-2), interdorsal thorns weak or obsolete (0-2), thorns in a continuous row. Colouration: dorsal mottled brown to grey, with numerous small dark spots; ventral coloration white, usually with dark brown blotches on underside of tail (Ref. 126515).